Usually means: Person walking by a location.
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  1. passer-by, passer-by: Collins English Dictionary
  2. passer-by: Vocabulary.com
  3. Passer-by, passer-by: Wordnik
  4. passer-by: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. passer-by: Wiktionary
  6. Passer-by, passer-by: Dictionary.com
  7. passer-by: Online Etymology Dictionary
  8. passer-by: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Passer-by: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. passer-by: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. passer-by: Rhymezone
  12. passer-by: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. passer-by: FreeDictionary.org
  14. passer-by: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. passer-by: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).

Similar:
bypasser, passer, passer-through, passenger, streetgoer, transiter, passholder, transient, way passenger, passwoman, more...

Opposite:
resident, inhabitant, local, stationary


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Similar:
bypasser, passer, passer-through, passenger, streetgoer, transiter, passholder, transient, way passenger, passwoman, more...

Opposite:
resident, inhabitant, local, stationary



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